Device for hanging meat.



' J. 1:. MOWINGKEL. DEVICE FOR HANGING MEAT.

APPLICATION FILED. 33.27, 1906.

Patented July 20, 1909.

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UNITED srArns i gipnntr OFFICE.

JACOB E. MOWINOKEL, OF KANSAS CITY, M ISSOURI, ASSIGNOR TO SWIFT ANDCOMPANY, OF

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A. CORPORATION OF ILLINOIS.

DEVICE FOR HANGING MEAT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 20, 1909.

Application filed April 27, 1905. Serial No. 257,767.

Kansas City, in the county of Jackson, State of Missouri, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in Devices for Hanging Meat, ofwhich the following is a full and complete specification, referencebeing bad to the accompanying drawings.

This invention. relates to devices for hang ing cuts or pieces of meat,and is particularly designed to be used in connection with the hangingof pieces of bacon during the process of smoking the same.

It is the object of my invention to provide device which can be readilyand quickly affixed to a piece of bacon, and when Et'l'llXGCl will holdsuch bacon firmly and in such manner as to practically entirely preventunequal stretching of the rind, and which will not damage the bacon ormar its appearance.

Broadly speaking, my invention consists of a bar of suitable length fromone side of which projects a series of prongs that are adapted to bepressed into a piece of bacon near one end of such piece, such bar beingprovided with suitable means for suspension in a smoke-house or otherplace. As an effective means for preventing the piece of meat frombecoming loosened from this pronged bar by reason of rough handling byworkmen or from other cause, I have also provided a clamping deviceadapted to bear on the surface of the meat opposite to that into whichthe prongs are forced.

Inthe drawings: Figure 1. is a perspective view of my meat holding withthe clamping device in substantially the position that it would assumewhen a piece of meat was in place on the prongs, and Fig. 2 is a similarview with the clamping device swung outward.

Referring to these two figures of the drawings :-5 indicates a bar,preferably of metal,

from one face of which projects a series of prongs 6. As shown, the endportions of this bar 5 are turned upward forming end pieces 7 the barbeing preferably twisted as shown so as to present its flat faces towardeach other. The number of the prongs 6 may be varied as desired, butthere should be a sufficient numher to insure the meat being held atquite a number of points from side to side, and the prongs arepreferably spaced an equal distance apart.

88 indicate the side portions of a bail, the central or horizontalportion of which is indicated by 9. This bail passes through holes inthe upper ends of the end pieces 7, so

that the bail can be freely swung toward or away from the hanger frame57. l

10 indicates a cross bar, connecting the lower ends of the bail 8--9,and rigidly secured to such ends.

11 indicates a bend in the central portion of the part 9 of the bail,such bend being adaptedto engage a hook or other support from which thedevice as a whole is to be suspended.

Iii-'12 indicate links, each adapted to slip down over one of theendpieces 7 and one of the side portions 8 so as to draw the cross bar10 up against the piece of meat that is im- 'paled on the prongs 6, thuspreventing, as

before stated, any possibility of such piece of meat being accidentallydislodged or knocked Off from the prongs from anycause. When not in use,or when it is desired to remove the piece of meat from the device, theselinks can be quickly pushed up onto the part 9 of the bail, where theywill hang as shown in Fig. 2, and the bail then turned to carry thecrossbar sufficiently away from the prongs to allow the removal of thepiece of meat.

As before stated, this device is primarily intended for use inconnection with pieces of bacon, and it is desirable that the rind benot punctured. or cut; and the prongs will therefore generally be madeof a length that will not pass entirely through a piece of bacon ofordinary sizes-it being understood, of course, that in securing a pieceof bacon to the device, the bacon is presented with the flesh sidetoward the prongs.

By the use of my improved device I have been able to successfullysuspend such pieces in a smoke-house so that during the process ofsmoking there would be no strain on the rind of the bacon that wouldcause it to stretch unequally and mar the appearance of the piece ofbacon as a whole. But on the contrary, such pieces of bacon, when sosuspended on my device, have come from the the pieces of bacon are underaverage size, the lip-turned end portions of said horizontal bar prongsWill not be long enough to be forced being pivotally mounted upon theintermethrough and disfigure the rind. (liate portions of said rod, anda cross bar What I claim as new, and desire to secure connecting thedown-turned end portions of 15 5 by Letters Patent, is the suspendingdevice and lying opposite the A inept hanging device, plomprising a sub;points of the teeth.

stantia y horizontal bar aving up-turnec w end portions, a series ofrigid teeth projecting JACOB MOWINCKEL' from said bar between said upturned end Witnesses:

10 portions, and a suspending device comprising ALBERT H. ADAMS,

a rod having clown-turned end portions, the MINNIE A. HUNTER.

